Talking about traumatic events cross-cultural investigation

Europe's Journal of Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-61

  Freitag, Simone ^a   Grimm, Anna ^a   Schmidt, Silke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective; Cognition; Crisis; Emotion; LIWC; Traumatic event; Word use

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960805968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18410413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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